{"id":285992,"date":"2016-12-19T12:26:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T11:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-bad-losers-and-what-they-fear-losing\/"},"modified":"2016-12-19T12:26:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T11:26:55","slug":"the-bad-losers-and-what-they-fear-losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-bad-losers-and-what-they-fear-losing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bad Losers (And What They Fear Losing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><em>Paris.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If the 2016 presidential campaign was a national disgrace, the reaction of the losers is an even more disgraceful spectacle.\u00a0 It seems that the political machine backing Hillary Clinton can\u2019t stand losing an election.<\/p>\n<p>And why is that?<\/p>\n<p>Because they are determined to impose \u201cexceptional\u201d America\u2019s hegemony on the entire world, using military-backed regime changes, and Donald Trump seems poised to spoil their plans.\u00a0 The entire Western establishment, roughly composed of neoconservative ideologues, liberal interventionists, financial powers, NATO, mainstream media and politicians in both the United States and Western Europe, committed to remaking the Middle East to suit Israel and Saudi Arabia and to shattering impertinent Russia, have been thrown into an hysterical panic at the prospect of their joint globalization project being sabotaged by in ignorant intruder.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s expressed desire to improve relations with Russia throws a monkey wrench into the plans endorsed by Hillary Clinton to \u201cmake Russia pay\u201d for its bad attitude in the Middle East and elsewhere. If he should do what he has promised, this could be a serious blow to the aggressive NATO buildup on Russia\u2019s European borders, not to mention serious losses to the U.S. arms industry planning to sell billions of dollars worth of superfluous weapons to NATO allies on the pretext of the \u201cRussian threat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The war party\u2019s fears may be exaggerated, inasmuch as Trump\u2019s appointments&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/12\/19\/the-bad-losers-and-what-they-fear-losing\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris. If the 2016 presidential campaign was a national disgrace, the reaction of the losers is an even more disgraceful spectacle.\u00a0 It seems that the political machine backing Hillary Clinton can\u2019t stand losing an election. And why is that? Because they are determined to impose \u201cexceptional\u201d America\u2019s hegemony on the entire world, using military-backed regime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-285992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}